Podcasts and Webcasts and Videos

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22408494/

EU Commission interviews with Prof Downes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd8zyhm-VVs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPUSR-R-Btg

The Wider View on News Northern Sound, 19th July 2021.  LISTEN BACK: Calls for emotional counselling to be introduced in schools.

Gary Gannon TC, in conversation with Sinéad Crossan, Educational Disadvantage Centre NEIC Fellow

Dr Paul Downes gave a keynote Presentation at the EPIC -  Empowering People in Care – Webinar on February 16^th 2021. The presentation is entitled The Holistic Educational Needs of Children and Young People in Care: Placing an Invisible Issue on the National Policy Agenda.

EPIC Webinar Podcast available to view here

Watch this short video from today's launch of the PMVT Report 2020 at their new eight-unit housing scheme in #Dublin. Despite the challenges of the pandemic, 2020 was their best year to date in responding to people in homelessness as they supported over 7,800 people across Ireland.

Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science - 17 December 2020. Committee broadcast available to view here

November 20^th 2020. School Education Gateway Webinar

This webinar discusses the indicators for inclusive systems in and around schools that were used for the self-assessment tool on the European Toolkit for Schools website, and how these indicators can be useful for schools, administrators or teacher education.

Erna Nairz-Wirth - Associate Professor and Head of the Education Sciences Group at Vienna University of Economics and Business and member of the EDC’s International Research Network on Equity in Youth Education and Training

Dr Per Kornhall -  an independent author, lecturer, and consultant in school development and education Business and member of the EDC’s International Research Network on Equity in Youth Education and Training

Moderator: Inna Agadzhanova - School Education Gateway

Sinéad Crossan spoke to Shane Coleman on Newstalk Breakfast on November 26^th 2020, on the introduction of ‘No Idling Zones’ outside schools across the country. Sinéad is a teacher in the Central Model School in Dublin’s city centre, and an NEIC Fellow with the Educational Disadvantage Centre in DCU

Dr Paul Downes, Suspensions and Exclusions in Primary School; Developing an Action Plan. Seminar School Completion Programme Dún Dealgan and Louth Children & Young People’s Services Committee. November 24th 2020 

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Dr Eavan Brady.  Webinar on the Educational Pathways of Care-Experienced Adults. 18^th November 2020

Paul Downes of @DCU_IoE critiquing current policy on #EdDisadvantage at @ChildRightsIRL  webinar. Wellbeing and increased guidance hours are a 'figleaf'. Proper therapeutic and trauma-related supports are necessary.

'One good adult' is no substitute for therapeutic support and exclusionary approach of suspensions is not in best interest of the child. #edchatie #eddisadvantage

Figures on #ChildPoverty in Europe and #Ireland show that the burden of the last economic recession was placed significantly on children. We must learn from our historical mistakes to address #EdDisadvantage in the #Covid19 generation

Webinar: Life Skills, Social & Emotional Learning and 21st Century Skills: Why, What & How

Luke Rodgers, from The Care Leavers organisation, explains how school experiences of children in care are shaped by the systems around them. Webinar hosted by the Rees Centre University of Oxford, July 2020.

Interview on Near FM with Challenger Coordinator, Jeannette Beirnes where she talks about Northside Partnership’s Challenger Programme. The EDC and Northside Partnership have been working together for many years, providing oral Irish supports to local students with the cooperation of IoE student volunteers. LISTEN HERE

Education in the times of Corona: Can mainstreaming Social-Emotional Learning ensure effective learning & well-being? with panellists including Dr. Nandini Chatterjee Singh, Senior National Programme Officer, UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development. May 2nd 2020

Education in the times of Corona: Is preparing for peace and global citizenship, a priority?, with panelists including Monika Froehler, CEO, Ban Ki Moon Centre for Global Citizens. May 14th 2020

Paul Downes (@21.45) spoke on Kildare FM’s Kildare Focus on the report on Early School Leaving in Carlow

Paul Downes (@23 mins) and Dylan Thomas, from Carlow County Development Partnership (@31 mins), spoke with Eimear Ní Bhraonáin of KCLR 96 FM about the rerport on Early School Leaving in Carlow

In this video, our CEO Pat Doyle and Head of Services explain the importance of the report, while DCU's Sarah Murphy and Dr Paul Downes speak about their research.

A research report on young homeless men’s experiences of the education system, by DCU's Educational Disadvantage Centre and Peter McVerry Trust, has found a widespread need for reforms and additional supports for vulnerable young people in the education system. The report, Educational Gaps and Future Solutions, sets out seven key recommendations to improve young people’s educational experiences and reduce the risks of homelessness in the future. Read the report in full here: https://buff.ly/2OrWD5m

Pat Doyle, Chief Executive Peter McVerry Trust, and Sarah Murphy, Educational Disadvantage Centre in DCU, discuss new research from DCU's Educational Disadvantage Centre into young homeless men's educational experience with Mary Wilson on RTE’s Drivetime, Wednesday 6th November 2019

MORNING IRELAND'S IT SAYS IN THE PAPERS, RADIO 1, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 6TH 2019

INTERVIEW WITH DR PAUL DOWNES ON SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ISSUES: RADIO NEWS FEATURES. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 21ST 2019. NEWS ON THE HOUR FROM 6AM TO 10AM

• Today FM
• Newstalk

Paul Downes Keynote Presentation, Finnish National Education Agency September 2019  (from 8.48)

Listen back to Ciara Kelly's Newstalk interview with Paul Downes, Monday October 14th 2019 (from 1.29.55)

Listen back to Ciara Plunkett's FM Radio Kildare interview with Paul Downes, Monday October 14th 2019 (from 12.10 on)

Listen back to Ciara Hargadon's Midwest Radio interview here 

EUROPEAN COMMISSION VIDEO ON EARLY SCHOOL LEAVING HEADLINE TARGET - September 2019

At the Second European Education Summit, School Education Gateway interviewed Paul Downes, Associate Professor of Education (Psychology) at the Institute of Education, Dublin City University.

Pat Courtney, principal of St Vincent's National School, recently spoke out about the continuing national homeless crisis. He joined Ryan Tubridy in studio on July 2nd 2019, to talk about the impact that homelessness is having on children's development.

A self-evaluation tool for school heads, teachers, parents, other school partners/policy makers – inspired by a DCU-led report – has been officially translated by the European Commission into 22 European languages.

Paul Downes (@21.45) spoke on Kildare FM’s Kildare Focus on the report on Early School Leaving in Carlow

Paul Downes (@23 mins) and Dylan Thomas, from Carlow County Development Partnership (@31 mins), spoke with Eimear Ní Bhraonáin of KCLR 96 FM about the rerport on Early School Leaving in Carlow

Traveller Oireachtas Group  launched   Morning Ireland Tuesday July 3^rd 2018

Dr Paul Downes, videoed interview at the international conference “Empowering eTwinning Schools- leading, learning, sharing”  in Rome in May 2018

Dr Paul Downes, Director of DCU Educational Disadvantage Centre speaks with Johnny Holmes of Near FM about the launch of the new Darndale & Kilbarrack Learning Hubs to promote access to third level education for the teaching profession. 

RTE 'It Says in the Papers' Wednesday January 17th 2018 (@ 3.05 mins): Darndale Community Learning Hub

• Conférence Decomparaisons Internationales Lutte Contre Le Décrochage Scolaire.

Dr Paul Downes’  keynote presentation at the CNESCO (Conseil national d’évaluation du système scolaire) CIEP Sorbonne Universities’ Conference on Early School Leaving Prevention.  His presentation was entitled  Early school leaving: taking a holistic, differentiated and systemic international perspective on the issue. 

Launch of report Downes, P., Nairz-Wirth, E., Rusanaite, V. Structural Indicators for Inclusive Systems in and around Schools, NESET II Report. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2017  Dublin.  DCU, St Patrick's Campus, September 20^th 2017 

Professor Daire Keogh's address

Dr Carol Coulter's address

Pat Courtney's address

Plenary session 

TEDx Talk Building school readiness in the inner city. Fiona Collins, Principal St Francis CBS, Dublin.    Dublin, June 20th 2015

Video Antwerp, March 13^th 2014  

PREVENT ‘s challenge is to conciliate a theoretical thought of quality with the implementation of concrete recommendations useful to each partner.   

PREVENT enables to:

• Exchange good practices between countries in order to learn from them at a local level

• Build, at the level of each city partner, a local plan of action thanks to the work of a support group gathering professionals, associations, parents and more widely every stakeholders interested in the drop-out issue

• Communicate and share the information with a large audience targeting principally local authorities who are not involved in the project.    

Annual Conference videos

Dr Downes' presentation is to be found at 24 minutes in on Part 1.

Press Conference